My great-uncle Bobby Joe Hand, age 71, is being buried today at Flatwoods Methodist Church near Eva, Tennessee. I am in Magnolia, Arkansas, and I wish I was there. I am an academic, so I deal with things in academic ways…in this case writing. This blog post is about mourning (or paying tribute to) a […]
This just in from Heritage News (April 2006): Interior Secretary Gale Norton designated Graceland, home of the king of rock ‘n’ roll Elvis Presley, as a National Historic Landmark on March 27, 2006. Click here for the full press release. Norton made the announcement during a special ceremony with Priscilla Presley on the mansion grounds […]
I grew up in Eva, Tennessee….on land that was just down the road from Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. Forrest has, of course, become an icon for Neo-Confederates (e.g., “I Ride With Forrest” bumper stickers), hate groups (he was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan) and many Tennesseeans in general (there are […]
The Story of William Walker William Walker was born in Nashville, Tennessee on May 8, 1824. He was a graduate of the University of Nashville, earned a medical degree, practiced medicine in Philadelphia, studied law in New Orleans, and then became co-owner of a newspaper, The New Orleans Crescent—incidentally where the young poet Walt Whitman […]
Civil War grafitti found during rennovation of former President Andrew Johnson’s home in Greenville, Tn. More at: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050415/ap_on_re_us/civil_war_graffiti_1
Yesterday afternoon a colleague of mine gave a colloquium in the Anthropology Department. After the lecture, several folks headed down to the nearest libation-serving outside patio (as it was a nice spring afternoon) to pretend to be intellectual and discuss topics of great importance *chuckle* This colleague was from Arkansas, but was born in Alaska. […]
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